Smoked salmon tea sandwiches on crustless bread are a standby of crooked pinkie lady teas. One memorable tea LTR recalls included tissue-thin smoked salmon on brioche with a dollop of creme fraiche. Yum! Then there were the less memorable: salty…
Superb quality tea leaves with a do-good spin is not what you'd associate with tea bags, those soggy limp sacks spreading brown stains at the side of a saucer. Granted, a lot of good tea companies are now in the…
If you've wondered what ever happened to LTR, in a word: Moving. As in going from a leafy, bucolic suburb near NYC to LTR's "hometown" of San Francisco. Alas, while what is quaintly known as "household goods" is lurching its…
Ah, the web. Look up 'how to decaffeinate tea" and you will find breathless missives advocating infusing tea for 30 seconds or up to five minutes as the cheap, foolproof way to extract caffeine from tea. Nice myth. Or as…
What if someone told you to throw out that first cup of freshly ground coffee, pour water over the used grinds and -- voila! -- decaf coffee! Yet that's the method some tout for tea. Now, tea leaves aren't coffee…